Chapter 278 My Brother
Minglu heard this and took action immediately.
The corpse was severely rigor mortis and the bones were stuck on the wall of the well, so it was not easy to get them out.
Jixiang brought in the big knife that the crazy woman had used for self-defense and threw it to Minglu. Minglu took the knife and cut another circle on the well wall.
Rong Que frowned, "The walls of the wells in the palace have been renovated. I have never seen a well that is made of yellow mud."
Minglu widened the wall of the well, used his hands to pad the bloody clothes outside, and worked together to carry up the two bodies, one large and one small, from below.
The child was held tightly in the woman's arms, with his face facing her chest. Ming Lu tried very hard to get the child out, but failed. "Your Majesty, we have to cut off her arms to get the child out. She is holding him too tightly."
Without waiting for Rong Que to speak, Su Qingqing said almost reflexively: "No."
Rong Que originally wanted to say it didn’t matter, no matter what, just show the child’s face and let him see what he looked like.
But since Su Qingqing said no, he did not refute it. He just said, "Go find Huang Zhaozhong and ask him to bring a coroner over."
They are all amateurs when it comes to dealing with corpses.
Minglu picked up another bloody shirt from the ground, wiped his hands, and left.
The blood-stained shirt that Minglu had wiped his hands on was thrown casually on the ground. Rong Que looked at the pattern on the shirt and his expression suddenly froze. He bent down and picked up the shirt. He took two steps to the door. With the help of the sunlight outside, the pattern was clearly visible in the places on the shirt that were not stained by blood.
"This is the princess's court dress."
Su Qingqing stood beside Rong Que and asked in confusion, "Has a princess ever been imprisoned in this cold palace?"
Rong Que shook his head, "I've never heard of it. Both my grandfather and my father doted on the princess. Not to mention the obedient one, Xiao Qi has killed countless people. My father couldn't bear to say a harsh word to her, so how could a princess be locked up in the cold palace?"
But this is indeed the princess's clothes, and it is a court dress.
Court dresses are rarely worn unless there are important occasions like state banquets.
What kind of princess could come here wearing such clothes?
Su Qingqing looked at Rong Que, and Rong Que shook his head.
“As far as I can remember, this has been the Cold Palace. Normally, no one comes here, and none of my father’s concubines have been locked up in the Cold Palace.
Several of my sisters basically moved out of the palace after they got married. They all married far away. The most recent one married to Qizhou, but she died three years ago.
As for my sisters, you also know that King Yu caused a rebellion and everyone in the entire palace was killed, without a single one left.
Moreover, the body is at least ten years old."
Rong Que could never imagine that any of his sisters would be imprisoned in such a place.
Everything that happened just now was too urgent, and Su Qingqing just then remembered that there was a crazy woman hiding in the hall. Since she didn't know the identity of the corpse and didn't know the reason for the princess's court dress, this crazy woman looked to be in her thirties, Rong Que might have an impression of her.
But when Su Qingqing brought Rong Que to the crazy woman who was knocked unconscious by Su Qingqing, Rong Que looked at her facial features and shook his head. "I've never seen her."
Su Qingqing squatted down and pulled a piece of cloth from her clothes to wipe the crazy woman's face, "Are you sure you don't know her?"
After wiping off some of the stains on his face, his facial features became clearer, and Rong Que became more determined, "I have indeed never seen this before."
After a pause, Rong Que continued, "I haven't seen it, but that doesn't mean that other people in the palace don't know about it. As a prince, I have hardly ever set foot in the cold palace, but the empress dowager may not know about it."
If Rong Que hadn't mentioned it, Su Qingqing would have forgotten about it.
There are two women in this palace!
A queen mother and a queen.
Of course, if we go by Rong Que’s current identity, the accurate definition should be a grand empress dowager, a queen mother. After all, Su Qingqing is the real queen at this time.
"I asked someone to draw a portrait of him. I'll take him over to ask him later."
Huang Zhaozhong and the coroner from his government office arrived very quickly. When they entered the room and saw the corpse lying in the hall, they were stunned.
After paying respects to Rong Que and Su Qingqing, Huang Zhaozhong couldn't help but sigh, "Oh my God, a body was found here!"
The coroner squatted beside the body and began to operate very skillfully, saying as he did so: "The age of death of this body should be in his early twenties, and it has been about fifteen or sixteen years since then.
The way of death...
There were signs of poisoning before death, but it was not the poison that killed him, but suffocation."
As he spoke, he took out the child's body from the woman's arms.
He put the child on the ground. He looked to be about four or five years old, with corpse spots all over his body.
"The age of death was about four and a half years old, and the death was ..."
Before the coroner could finish his words, there was a loud bang. Rong Que stared at the corpse with a pale face. He staggered back several steps and stepped on the knife that Minglu had just used to widen the well wall.
His breathing quickened for a moment.
He knew the kid.
Su Qingqing held Rong Que tightly, and Rong Que's whole body was shaking.
"My brother, my brother, my dear brother, my brother, this is my brother!"
His voice was intermittent and completely inaudible. He opened his mouth and took big gulps of breath. The sound came out of his throat and the pitch was distorted. In the end, he just opened his mouth but no sound came out.
He held Su Qingqing's hand tightly, his eyes filled with shock, anger and sadness.
After staggering four or five steps, he suddenly let go of Su Qingqing and pounced on the child.
“Ahhhhh~”
Picking up the child covered in corpse spots, Rong Que said nothing and just kept roaring.
No one expected things to develop to this point.
Rong Que's younger brother was killed here when he was four or five years old.
Su Qingqing looked at Rong Que with heartache.
Where was Rong Que when his brother died?
Where was Rong Que's mother when his brother died?
When my brother died , how did the entire palace announce the news of his death?
Missing?
How could a child go missing in a heavily guarded imperial palace, let alone a prince!
He is the prince born by the queen!
Su Qingqing had never heard that Rong Que had a younger brother, and Rong Que himself had never mentioned his younger brother!
Is it because he died too young so we don't mention it or what...
Countless thoughts flooded into her mind. Su Qingqing felt that every question she had at this moment would be like a knife in Rong Que's heart, piercing his heart and lungs until they were rotten.
Unable to utter a word of comfort, Su Qingqing stood beside Rong Que, reaching out and rubbing his hair bit by bit, trying to calm his turbulent emotions .
As for Jingzhao Yin Huang Zhaozhong, he had completely lost his mind.
He turned around and asked Ming Lu blankly, "Your Majesty has a younger brother?"
Minglu was also dumbfounded!
I have absolutely no idea!
